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You are going to have to tell me what the tree is with the colored bark. It kind of looks like gumbo-limbo but not quite. It's funny you mention the african tulip tree, because I am going to plant one in front of my house

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The African Tulip Tree is one of the worst trees, whoever brought it to PR should have been tarred and feathered, hung, and then shot. I've read about many cities in the US trying to remove them, but it's not easy. I have thousands of them growing with my plantains.
In a few years you will wish you never planted it. They are a super weak tree and break with the slightest winds, and before you can blink they are 100' tall. After they snap, they grow right back and the fallen branches produce a couple hundred new weeds.

They are probably perfect for making pulp or wood chips.

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Hey Keeth --- do a pic spread of critters next time. Does PR have the Fer de Lance like Costa Rica?

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Hey anD --- As far as I know, PR does not have any venomous snakes.

In fact we have very few snakes, on average I see less than one a year.

We do have many Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

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There are some in a lot down the road from me. They don't seem to be too problematic here.

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I hope you do some research before planting, I don't recommend this tree anywhere near a house.

ENH-758/ST600: Spathodea campanulata: African Tulip-Tree

http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/documents...Tulip-PP64.pdf

Plant Production and Protection Division: African Tulip Tree

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African Tulip | The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia

Floridata: Spathodea campanulata

WARNING
African tuliptrees have weak, brittle wood and tend to become hollow and drop large branches as they age, so they are easily shattered by high winds. This tree is also inclined to become invasive in suitable genuinely tropical environments and is regarded as an exotic problem species in Hawaii, Fiji, French Polynesia, and Samoa. In such places, African tuliptree invades both abandoned farmland and mature forests, where the seeds germinate rapidly and form understory thickets from which a few saplings eventually grow into the canopy. Although African tuliptree is not typically thought of as a toxic plant, African hunters are said to have boiled the seeds to extract arrow poison.

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Great Pix PR Giant !

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Hey, your right, it's Keith. Sorry about that. I was just following my phonetic training. Had to study Latin when I was a kid and students have to rely on pronunciation based on their native tongue - mine being English - to speak a dead language. Every Keith I ever worked with was amazed when I would lapse and say his name like dry - as in eins zwei drei.

Never knew the mongoose was brought to PR. When I visited Costa Rica 2 yrs ago our guide on a jungle walkabout showed me how to find snakes. Look for a broad leafed plant where adjoining leaves lay on top of one another. Lift the covering leaf up slowly with a long stick and now and then there will be a snake coiled up on the lower leaf. One that we found was a small fer-de-lance - terciopelo. Black triangles on back, facial pits, vertical pupils. Venomous big time. I always hunted for snakes as a kid and once had a small garter snake that I trained to sleep in my shirt pocket. I did not play with Sr. Terciopelo.

Dan, as in can.

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Black Rat Snake.

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Environment: Snakes of Puerto Rico

Boa constrictors invade Puerto Rico - CBS News

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Tony, please stop. NO MORE SNAKES !!!

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10-4

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That was on some nature show as well.. They need some Black Momba's. I know they have them in Panama.. :^)

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Very Cool Video, T.

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Great Video , Did not know that PR had Boa's.
I have to take a trip to PR , have not been there in 10 years.

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It would be a good 50 feet away on the leeward side of my house. I want to have some flowering trees in my front yard and my refuses to let me plant Poinciana. Maybe Jacaranda would fit the bill.

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Mango Tree - average diameter of 36" - Large but not as large as many others that I have

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Nice looking Heliconia! Hey was that a centipede on the mango tree?